OOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhh!!! I wish I was in New York so I could go to the big Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930) show at the folk art museum there. You know his stuff? Amazing amazing art he did it all while living in an asylum, Waldau, in Germany (same place my fave writer Robert Walser was interned for awhile too). Ive been to the museum of his work in Berne, its hard to believe one person did what he did.
His work was monumentally psychotic and boastful (ST ADOLF GIANT CREATOR OF ALL THINGS it says or something like that in a buncha his things), beautiful, VORTEX work, so much thought and yet so little thought at the same time -- you see his work and it reminds you of so many things at once from the mandala tradition in India to Appalachian scrollwork that like the lady said in the NY Times last FRi., it really makes you think there MUST be a collective unconsciousness, as if there were any doubt that Jung was 'right' or whatever.
When I was like 12, 13, I was *so afraid* I was somehow crazy. Maybe its cause both my grandmothers were? Anyway, Id close my eyes and see swirls of the world mixed with demons and devils and bones and fire and I was all infatuated with death and dismemberment and decay and full of bleak and bizarre hellfire desire. (NOPE I am not a Catholic either but I really like Catholic chicks as does anyone with a filthy mind.) Today I lack that kind of vision, and sometimes I even miss it.
However today my life is this slow tornado of STUFF, always turning, always a mess, always full of shit swirling around and I do so many things I rarely do anything well. Like I just realized I have to get a lengthy, completed interview with this guitar guy Elliott Sharp to BOMB magazine in less than a week, and I havent started yet!
I have to get back to making lists, they really are like the only thing that keeps my life in order.
Lately my lists look FUCKING SCARY THOUGH
Among the things on my TO DO THIS YEAR list:
* The afore-blathered-about book (and hopefully a big magazine article thats where I can make some real $$) about my old pal Alan Greenbergs *Love In Vain* film to be directed by Tim Blake Nelson, with Puffy as Robert Johnson, and music by Keith Richards and etc
* A proposed one person theater piece called Circles (Instant Party) combining the already posted Junk and Stab pieces with two other things Im working on called Detox and Lost.
* A nicely printed porno-meets-art magazine/ journal thats all-encompassing in its sexual affiliations and combines the skuzzy gay hotness of Steve Lafrenieres Straight To Hell with the pro-feminist porn of well, SG sorta stuff, hopefully getting contributions from folks like Mark Pritchard, Mike Kelley, Michelle Tea, Cupcake(sugarandspice.org), R Kern, etc. Working title: Dirty or Soup or Dandy but I dont really like any of those names
*YETI 2 more issues this year and a DVD comp.
* SAD ROBOT RECORDS About 7 releases this year thank God I got a partner with that shit
The most important thing to do tonight is go see Calexico and Nic Dunger -- and try to relax! Deeeeeeep breathing!!!
PS: Im still in love with the new Cat Power album, You Are Free. Especially track three, which is about letting go of a loved one. Ay yi yi iy it is an arrow to my heart.
His work was monumentally psychotic and boastful (ST ADOLF GIANT CREATOR OF ALL THINGS it says or something like that in a buncha his things), beautiful, VORTEX work, so much thought and yet so little thought at the same time -- you see his work and it reminds you of so many things at once from the mandala tradition in India to Appalachian scrollwork that like the lady said in the NY Times last FRi., it really makes you think there MUST be a collective unconsciousness, as if there were any doubt that Jung was 'right' or whatever.
When I was like 12, 13, I was *so afraid* I was somehow crazy. Maybe its cause both my grandmothers were? Anyway, Id close my eyes and see swirls of the world mixed with demons and devils and bones and fire and I was all infatuated with death and dismemberment and decay and full of bleak and bizarre hellfire desire. (NOPE I am not a Catholic either but I really like Catholic chicks as does anyone with a filthy mind.) Today I lack that kind of vision, and sometimes I even miss it.
However today my life is this slow tornado of STUFF, always turning, always a mess, always full of shit swirling around and I do so many things I rarely do anything well. Like I just realized I have to get a lengthy, completed interview with this guitar guy Elliott Sharp to BOMB magazine in less than a week, and I havent started yet!
I have to get back to making lists, they really are like the only thing that keeps my life in order.
Lately my lists look FUCKING SCARY THOUGH
Among the things on my TO DO THIS YEAR list:
* The afore-blathered-about book (and hopefully a big magazine article thats where I can make some real $$) about my old pal Alan Greenbergs *Love In Vain* film to be directed by Tim Blake Nelson, with Puffy as Robert Johnson, and music by Keith Richards and etc
* A proposed one person theater piece called Circles (Instant Party) combining the already posted Junk and Stab pieces with two other things Im working on called Detox and Lost.
* A nicely printed porno-meets-art magazine/ journal thats all-encompassing in its sexual affiliations and combines the skuzzy gay hotness of Steve Lafrenieres Straight To Hell with the pro-feminist porn of well, SG sorta stuff, hopefully getting contributions from folks like Mark Pritchard, Mike Kelley, Michelle Tea, Cupcake(sugarandspice.org), R Kern, etc. Working title: Dirty or Soup or Dandy but I dont really like any of those names
*YETI 2 more issues this year and a DVD comp.
* SAD ROBOT RECORDS About 7 releases this year thank God I got a partner with that shit
The most important thing to do tonight is go see Calexico and Nic Dunger -- and try to relax! Deeeeeeep breathing!!!
PS: Im still in love with the new Cat Power album, You Are Free. Especially track three, which is about letting go of a loved one. Ay yi yi iy it is an arrow to my heart.
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when are you coming over to teach me?
obviously i didn't make it.
i got the 'dont want to leave the house blues' and wasn't feeling especially like venturing to a show on my own.
what a dork, i know.
i really do enjoy that music.. and its sort of new to me. i dont have a lot of "band" knowledge.. i've been a dance music girl pretty much my whole life. can i get that cd in stores? like local shops like other music? or bigger ones like virgin? it is something i would definitely like to explore some more.
thanks again.
xo